Paper Cup with Seam, 2012
Oil on Canvas Mounted on Panel, 22" x 24"
In the last couple of years, I find myself working with thinner and thinner layers of paint, thus getting away from the effects of thick layers and impasto, even in the highlighted areas.
My reasoning for this change is to eliminate any textural, sculptural or three-dimensional effect on a two-dimensional picture plane.
I am not a sculptor, but consider myself a "pure painter".
It seems that the consensus in the Pacific Northwest, where I live, many of the painters I have talked to feel the thicker the paint buildup on a flat surface the more expressive, the more painterly.
I have to disagree. The medium of paint, when painting directly from nature (i.e., to express representation or realism), should convey or express three-dimensional reality in two dimensions in order to maintain the integrity of the two-dimensional picture plane.
The above work I finished last week, I hope, illustrates my point.
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